Robert P. Jones is the founder and CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts research on issues at the intersection of religion, culture and politics. Simon & Schuster hide caption toggle caption Simon & Schuster Robert P. Jones is the founder and CEO of […]
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By Christian K. Anderson, The Conversation When I toured the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion in 2019, I noticed the multi-volume papers of John C. Calhoun on display. It struck me as remarkable that Calhoun’s ideas would be featured so prominently given his vigorous defense of slavery and his role in […]
US Racism’s $13 Trillion Legacy Is Just The Start By Anna Szymanski, Reuters. June 20, 2020 US Racism’s $13 Trillion Legacy Is Just The Start2020-06-202020-06-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/window-e1592668011601.png200px200px Above photo: “Black Lives Matter” is written in a shop window in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 18, 2020. New York – Around the […]
United Skates, a 2019 documentary film highlighting the history of black roller skating rinks, opens with a shot that is all-too-prescient for this summer of Black Lives Matter demonstrations: police sirens. As black families, many of them with children, wait to enter a roller skating rink, they are monitored by […]
Fox News host Harris Faulkner gave President Donald Trump every opportunity to calm tensions over racist police brutality during an interview in Dallas that aired, in part, Friday afternoon. He either had no interest in doing so or was ultimately incapable. Faulkner began her interview by asking Trump if he […]
Injury-plagued former champ Dominick Cruz makes his return from another extended absence from the cage to challenge Henry Cejudo for bantamweight gold at UFC 249, knowing that a win will mark him out as the best of all time. Throughout the tenure of the UFC’s bantamweight fold, Cruz has known […]